On 10/10/05 17:49, Andrew Morton wrote:> > But it seems that this is not the case and that work continues on other> strategies. Is that a correct impression? If so, what shortcoming(s) in> kdump are causing people to be reluctant to use it?

True. There are many of us who continue to work on LKCD. Kdump is extremelypromising, but it's simply not ready for commercial use. Last I checked itwas i386 only and there are several conditions that can result in not beingable to generate a crash dump. LKCD using a non-interrupt driven basedpolling mode (a la diskdump) has become quite capable of generating crashdumps from very nasty situations.

When kdump gets to the point where it works as well as LKCD on IA-64, i386,and x86_64 I'll be happy to switch over.